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Women are required to dress modestly and Shariah police officers patrol the streets and conduct raids to hunt for immoral activities.

The province began implementing Sharia law after being granted autonomy in 2001 – an attempt by the government in Jakarta to quell a long-running separatist insurgency.

Islamic laws have been strengthened since Aceh struck a peace deal with Jakarta in 2005.

An executor known as 'algojo' prepares for a public caning for violations against Sharia law in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

A woman is escorted to the public spot where she will be given a caning for spending time with a man who is not her husband

Large groups gather to watch a lashing in public of a woman who spent time with a man who wasn't her husband

Some of the masked men in the pictures are paid professional executioners, and all adhere to an intimidating dress code of a black robe with a gold trim, beige or light-coloured eye mask and white gloves.

Previously, the enforcers have been seen to wear a pink trim to their black robes, but their footwear appears to be their own choice.

They have been seen to wear black boots, running shoes and in the most recent lashings which occurred on Monday, one enforcer was spotted wearing what looked like hotel-issue white slippers.

Punishments were handed out to women and men having sex outside of marriage for which they received 25 lashings.

One man was caned for gambling and both men and women were lashed for spending time with somebody who is not their husband or wife.

The punishments are not consistent with previous cases, with women caned 100 time for having sex outside of marriage just 10 days ago.

RECENT BARBARIC BEATINGS IN BANDA ACEH

In the past year, MailOnline has reported on the troubling rising trend of public lashings carried out in Aceh, Indonesia:

March 1, 2016: Woman whipped 50 times for spending time alone with a man at the age of 19.

March 24, 2016: Young woman carried from the stage on a stretcher after being lashed for sex outside marriage.

August 1, 2016: Another woman is lashed for going on a date in Aceh.

In the past year, MailOnline has reported on the troubling rising trend of public lashings carried out in Aceh, Indonesia

August 15, 2016: Elderly man caned for breaking Sharia law.

September 11, 2016: Man and a woman lashed for having an affair and among the gathered crowd is the mayor of Banda Aceh.

October 17, 2016: Muslim woman screams out in pain on stage after being lashed 23 times for standing too close to her boyfriend.

October 31, 2016: A woman, 20, caned in public for getting too close to a man she wasn't married to.

November 28, 2016: Man and a woman lashed 100 times each for adultery.

February 2, 2017: Enforcer lands 26 beatings across the back of a woman for having sex outside of wedlock.

February 10, 2017: Woman collapses in pain on stage as she is being caned.

February 27, 2017: Man collapses on stage as he is being whipped for having sex outside of marriage.